Image Segmentation Using Artificial Intelligence Approaches

Image segmentation is of great importance in computer vision, face recognition, medical imaging, digital libraries and video retrieval among others. Accurately segmenting an image is always a hot topic. Image segmentation results in a set of areas that collectively cover the entire image, or a set of contours extracted from the image that has a special meaning. All of the pixels in an obtained area are similar in respect some certain characteristics or computed parameters, such as colour, intensity or texture. However, adjacent regions tend to be significantly different in those same characteristics